Thread: Battlefield Bad Company 2 Demo

Verdict:

So I played for a bit last night. Now, I was a big fan of Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142 on the PC back in the day. I know this is an Xbox, but I'm still going to judge the game against my experience with the franchise

For start, I felt the engine looked dated. I've always loved Frostbites exploding walls/ trees/ fences etc. But for a game coming out early 2010 the near-distance textures/graphics aren't very sharp. Things like missle impacts and C4 seemed flat to me. I know Battlefield isn't all about fluid graphics and the maps are of a large scale. But the game is going up against stiff competition on the consoles and I think the 'judge a book by its cover' gamers will let BFBC2 go from a graphics perspective. On a quick note, scenery distance (distant mountains, sky, horizons) items all looked very nice.

Combat was great fun. I mostly roll medic as I like to support advances. I was straight upto the top of the scoreboard with kills and heals it was a lot of fun. I liked the way projectiles act. They seem to have got it right and watching an attack helicopter on a strafing run was just amazing.

Rush mode is quite nice, nothing super different in terms of battlefield, But progressing across the battlefield is quite fun. Similar to say, Rugby or American Football in terms of moving slowly up the pitch or trying to hold off the push.

All in all, I enjoyed playing the demo. Graphically a bit of a disappointment. Gameplay was fun and I can see it getting better in friendship squads and once familiar with the terrain/maps.

This is either a + or - depending on your view point; But I don't think it will pull the COD crowd/kiddies, as they'll just say it doesn't look very good. On the PS3 side of things, shooter fans will go for MAG instead.

Whether BFBC2 is worth RRP is still to be seen. On the strength of the demo, I would only buy the game if a mass of friends were getting it for their next community game. Otherwise, for me persoanlly I don't think I'd rush out and buy it until some reviews start pouring in.

A mixed response, I did enjoy some aspects and not others.

My favourite is definitly BF2:MC. Although I do think that this demo is better than 1943, as much as I enjoy it.

It just takes some getting used to I suppose to, it has been over a year since I played a BF game. I think i'll still buy it however.

I think our problem is that we've hyped it up way too much, hoping that it would be a CoD killer(for us) and an instant hit, I think thats probably too much to expect from a demo. Stick with it and i'm sure it will be awesome.

I really liked it as IMO its something different from MW2.
Its not graphically superior as the graphics in BFBC2 was very Jaggy looking.

The gameplay was very fast and full of action which was pretty cool. I tried all of the classes, I couldnt get used to the sniper, Very hard gun to get used to. I usually rolled as an engineer with my blow torch thingy, good fun. Plus I liked the rpg.

I think I need to play it a bit more to get the hang of it.
My way of thinking, ths is 1 type of game mode, i hope there will be different types (please someone confirm this) TDM or GW would be good.

I loved the tanks, soo nice to take charge of a tank and drive over some mofo sniper or quad.

I'll prob get this on release day as I thnk this will be good craic with the xbf nutters going mad online.

Been playing it for a few hours now. It's amazing! I played the first one recently, but by the time I got to it I think the game was a few years old and people just seemed to be far too good. Looking forward to the release of this very much.

the graphics might be compressed to keep the download size down. I liked the single player last time as well.

I'd download the demo but it'd take ages on my crappy connection. Im just going to wait for the real-thing. Definetly getting this and AvP.

Originally Posted by KnightOfOneX

I'd download the demo but it'd take ages on my crappy connection. Im just going to wait for the real-thing. Definetly getting this and AvP.

Yes i have that problem i think it is the xbox that is slow to download not the download speed on the PC, it took me ages too, but oh boy it was worth it

Originally Posted by bedwell21

Verdict:

So I played for a bit last night. Now, I was a big fan of Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142 on the PC back in the day. I know this is an Xbox, but I'm still going to judge the game against my experience with the franchise

For start, I felt the engine looked dated. I've always loved Frostbites exploding walls/ trees/ fences etc. But for a game coming out early 2010 the near-distance textures/graphics aren't very sharp. Things like missle impacts and C4 seemed flat to me. I know Battlefield isn't all about fluid graphics and the maps are of a large scale. But the game is going up against stiff competition on the consoles and I think the 'judge a book by its cover' gamers will let BFBC2 go from a graphics perspective. On a quick note, scenery distance (distant mountains, sky, horizons) items all looked very nice.

Combat was great fun. I mostly roll medic as I like to support advances. I was straight upto the top of the scoreboard with kills and heals it was a lot of fun. I liked the way projectiles act. They seem to have got it right and watching an attack helicopter on a strafing run was just amazing.

Rush mode is quite nice, nothing super different in terms of battlefield, But progressing across the battlefield is quite fun. Similar to say, Rugby or American Football in terms of moving slowly up the pitch or trying to hold off the push.

All in all, I enjoyed playing the demo. Graphically a bit of a disappointment. Gameplay was fun and I can see it getting better in friendship squads and once familiar with the terrain/maps.

This is either a + or - depending on your view point; But I don't think it will pull the COD crowd/kiddies, as they'll just say it doesn't look very good. On the PS3 side of things, shooter fans will go for MAG instead.

Whether BFBC2 is worth RRP is still to be seen. On the strength of the demo, I would only buy the game if a mass of friends were getting it for their next community game. Otherwise, for me persoanlly I don't think I'd rush out and buy it until some reviews start pouring in.

u probably havent play BFBC1 which was really good, but i think u are not expecting the graphics to be like PC coz xbox is only a console but the maps were huge, it was very easy to get lost in multiplayer maps and it is almost a sandbox game, i wish it was just one large map and u got through defencing bit by bit that would make a brilliant game